The coming price increases won’t just affect the type of cars we thought: customers are in be alert, cars will experience price increases never seen before.
It’s not a good historical period for motorists. The one that should be an ecological transition towards a better, cleaner and more advantageous world for all is turning into an expensive operation that always ends up penalizing those who have less money aside. First the issue of the progressive ban on the circulation of cars with lower Euro polluting categories, then the rising fuel prices. Now, there are some very heavy price increases coming!
Many customers are discouraged from buying new electric cars with high prices of the cars produced by Western brands are more oriented towards Chinese models which also offer competitive costs here. The main problem is the duties, approved by the European Union and which will affect imported cars in the coming months.
If this measure aims to make a pull sigh of relief for European producers and Westerners who fear competition from Chinese companies that have higher subsidies and much lower labor costs – hence their often rock-bottom prices – will not, however, make Italian consumers happy. Also because not all the penalized cars are produced by local companies.
Increases at 360 degrees, it’s a tragedy
The main problem with the duties which should come into force in July and which could add increases ranging from 17% to 38% on prices to be added to those already in force is that Western companies are also involved: there are several companies that produce some models in China including Tesla, Mini, Volvo and Volkswagen just to name a few.
The most striking case probably concerns the Mini brand small car manufacturer of BMW: the new Aceman will in fact be built in Shenyan from which it must be imported into Europe and, at this point, the expected price of 35 thousand euros could exceed 40 thousand. Not that other brands are in better conditions with Tesla which could be forced to charge as much as 49 thousand euros as the base price for the Model 3 produced in China.
Increases like this could also hit giants of “moderateness” like Dacia that builds Spring in Dongfeng, Volvo which is building the EX-30 SUV in Zhangjiakou and even a luxury brand like Lotus which will produce the Emeya and the Eletre in China. In short, the prices of these cars could rise further, a sensational turn of events considering that the measure was in theory supposed to benefit European manufacturers, not put them in difficulty.
